Dr. Michael Collins: Chancellor, UMass Medical School, Worcester

Dr. Michael Collins is overseeing an expanding UMass Medical School at a time when the role of government in the health-care industry is a hot issue. As head of UMass Medical School since 2008, Collins is positioned to provide critical direction and leadership for its continuing efforts to distinguish itself as a premier academic health-sciences center of national and international distinction. The economic impact of his institution is huge.

UMass Medical School generates more than $900 million in annual revenue. It consists of the following: the School of Medicine; the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; the Graduate School of Nursing; more than 1,100 graduate-level students; a workforce of 6,800, several complex and diversified business units such as Commonwealth Medicine and MassBiologics of UMMS; and a thriving, $250-million research portfolio.

In a 2012 Worcester Business Journal interview, Collins said, “When you have a large number of people to lead, you have to rely on a lot of people by establishing a vision, articulating it, and [being] sure they understand it with you.”

America is only now beginning to fix its massively broken health-care system. Look for Collins to continue wielding his power-and-influence scalpel to apply more than just a Band-Aid to that gaping wound.

John Prosser: Chairman, Seven Hills Foundation, Worcester

James Paulhus: President and CEO, UniBank for Savings, Whitinsville

Michael O’Brien: City Manager, City of Worcester (Until Jan. 5, 2014)

Tim Murray: President and CEO, Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce

Jim McGovern: U.S. Rep., Worcester

William Manley: Founder and CEO, Calare Properties, Hudson

Gordon Lankton: Founder, Museum of Russian Icons and Gallery of African Art, Clinton

Warner Fletcher: Partner, Fletcher Tilton, Worcester

Gerald Fels: Trustee Emeritus, Nichols College, Dudley

Fred Eppinger: President and CEO, The Hanover Insurance Group

Mary DeFeudis: Philanthropist and Volunteer, Northborough

P. Kevin Condron: Chairman and CEO, The Granite Group LLC, Concord, N.H.